You must write a 500-1000 word essay for the final exam.
This is a take-home exam. Obviously, you have access to a variety of sources in preparing your answers, but your answers must be yours alone. Avoid long quotations and do not plagiarize. Mark and cite the source of any quotations that you use. Be sure to upload your answers in Microsoft Word or as an RTF file.
Please Utilize the readings when answering these questions. Be sure to include a thesis statement, relevant details, and citations for your sources. The essay should be from 3 to 5 well-developed paragraphs in length and each paragraph must be at least 3 sentences long.
1.) Based on the readings from this course, in particular, the Berry/Gross book, the authors discuss the evolution of Black women’s roles in domestic servitude. In the discussion of the rise of domestic servitude and Black women’s longstanding history of being systematically barred from fair labor opportunities, one Black woman declares, “I live a treadmill life […] Tho today we are enjoying nominal freedom, we are literally slaves.” How does Black women’s history (within and outside labor history) complicate your understanding of the progression of Black rights in the United States? What is the connection to slavery, and how does labor feel or seem different for Black women?
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